Well, maybe not the best. No, who am I kidding? THE BEST. When I found this out I was so excited I had to go out and walk around so that I wouldn't just start screaming with joy right here in the office.

( Cut just in case you consider casting news a spoiler... )
I am EXPLODING. I am so happy I have a headache now. God, I love this show.

Tags: aside, awesome, for the win, squee
Current Mood: joy joy joy

I have a chest cold - a rare occurence for me, surprisingly enough. I haven't had a chest cold for many years now, and this is a new one - it's not the after-effect of some other cold or flu, it just sprang up fully formed. I'm kind of out of it, though sometimes I feel perfectly fine. Bleh. Oh well, it's going to get me out of work tomorrow to obtain some more bed rest.

Met up with my pal Jeff who so kindly gave me his copy of the Heroes comics hardcover. No longer will I have to scramble around the NBC site obsessively re-reading "War Buddies". I had a strange brain-burst the other day theorizing how Linderman happened to be in a U.S. Army regiment in Vietnam - I thought that maybe he had been PLACED there by someone else, but I don't think that'd be possible - did Linderman know about his powers before Vietnam and Au Co? Hmmm. Anyway, fun times.

Finally made it through season 3 of Alias and I think I'm going to stop there. David Anders got me to watch the show, but he might not be enough to keep me watching - they really kind of assassinated his character, or at least made him incredibly lame all of a sudden. Still the shared-actors pool grew - by season 3 you've got Anders, Grunberg, Shishir Kurup, Richard Roundtree, Stana Katic, and... I feel like I'm missing one. (And then the other fab guest stars - Isabella Rossellini, Djimon Hounsou [squeal!], Quentin Tarantino, Vivica Fox, David Carradine, Ethan Hawke [who was excellent - do I like him or not? I can't decide], David Cronenberg... whew! But god dammit, they don't even bother TRYING to make the storylines or characterizations believable. I can't hack it.) I'm not sorry I watched - watching David Anders go from baby-faced youth to buzzcut, bronzed hotness is startling and sexy. He's aged rapidly since then, which is why he looks like he's in his late 30's now; I think it's because he lost tons of weight, sharpening his facial features and making his thin skin crinkle around the eyes. He really is lovely (and he also has a crooked lip, but his is a structural issue, not a neuromuscular one, like some hotties I could mention).

No writing is happening at the moment. I am sad.

Tags: aside, david anders, webcomics
Current Mood: sick
Current Music: Super Furry Animals: That's What I'm Talking About

As horked from snopes_faith, who has been gosh-darn nice to me lately. As stated in her post, you can tag 10 people, but I also won't... but I thought it'd be good for me to think about stuff that's good... because it does exist, honestly!

1. Being able to leave work and go directly across the street to the bar (across the street! mmm drunken comic book people!) and drink beers with one of my favorite coworkers, who is sadly leaving today... but hey, beer and hugs and drunken comic book people.

2. The Make It So podcast. Awesome foul-mouthed English guys talking Star Trek and throwing down much love for the Shatner. (But why don't they like "Miri"? The underage sexual tension can be cut with a knife!)

3. The Archie-comic-illustrated "Common People." I love Pulp lyrics and I love repurposed Archie comics.

4. Brain Boy, an extremely weird early 1960s non-costumed superhero comic. Issue #2 is uncomfortably topical!

5. The Spike Spiegel silver pendant that a friend gave me recently. Because I am unrepentantly in love with Spike Spiegel, yes I am. He is the winner of "hottest emotionally unavailable animated character" in my book.

6. Season 2 of Alias. So many guest stars; so much sci-fi spy absurdity; Greg Grunberg. My brain turned to sludge but I loved it.

7. Bed. So warm and soft and comfy it breaks my heart to get out of it every morning.

8. Payday. Woohoo!

9. My "Wall of Hotness" in my office at work. Someday I'll take a grainy photo of it with my cell phone and post it here so that you can laugh at how absurd my life is (and/or gnash your teeth in rage that you're not allowed to plaster your entire office from floor to ceiling with posters of Hiro, Peter, Nathan, Xander, Luke Skywalker, and Marvin Gaye).

10. Good friends. Thank you so much.

Tags: aside, meme, silliness
Current Mood: maintenance

Thanks to a sudden violent upswing in the amount of work I have to do at work (gee, imagine that) and the fact that suddenly there are a million things to do outside of work, my writing output has been severely curtailed.

At the moment I'm not writing anything. No sir, I don't like it. But hmmm... am I not writing because I'm depressed, or am I depressed because I'm not writing?

Anyway, I'm going to try to yank some control back into my life and write a little Ritual story sometime soon, perhaps over the weekend. It's naughty misbehavior, when I should be working more on the novel, but I have a sleazy book to read about Morrissey and Johnny Marr and the tensions between them which led to the breakup of the Smiths, and I feel like I should read that before I write the next chapter. (Mmm, original slash, my favorite.)

In the meantime, Ritual is just free-form poetry. I genuinely will pull off a PWP, because the plot's already there (it will cover the hour or so that I didn't address that comes in the middle of Ritual (7), "Vermont", as I've had some ideas there). Same old same old, and yet, a completely different approach to the material than I had before.

In other irrelevancy news, I might be coming down with the flu...

I miss my show. I want to curl up in a blanket and watch the entire Claude arc. I think he meant you, friend.

Tags: aside, status report

September 8th, Chris Zatta?

Returning on Monday, September 8th?

REEWY?

If anyone can find an actual source for this little tidbit, I'd be very pleased. (Or has this just been common knowledge all along, and I am just keeping up with my policy of Living Under the Rock Known as Comic Books?... I have read some great comics recently...)

Update: SOURCE!

Tags: aside, hiatus is killing me, hope
Current Mood: desperate

Supposedly PATHOLOGY opened on Friday of last week (according to the IMDb, which has obviously gotten more than 5 ratings... it ranks a 4.5 out of 10, no giant surprise there), but I've heard, read, and seen nothing that would lead me to believe that that's the case. It certainly isn't showing in my major US city anywhere... I wonder if it's in limited release or is going to just be dumped more or less straight to DVD.

I absolutely would go see this in the theater, but it doesn't look like I'll have the chance.

Anyone know anything about it? (I suppose I could check the Milo board at Television Without Pity, but seeing as I haven't had the time to comb through several scores of pages of people shrieking angrily about Panettierimiglia, or whatever they've done for the last eight or so months since I checked, I just can't bring myself to do it. [And you can't really search the forums, which is one of the major drawbacks of TWoP, along with them taking away my precious Lost Bitterness Fiesta]. What's a Milo-lovin' gal to do?)

Tags: aside, milo ventimiglia, wtf
Current Mood: baffled

NY Times has a great article about how the de rigeur silhouette for male models these days... gee, looks an awful lot like Milo. (And Adrian, nowadays; but Adrian's always had the right body type for the era, no matter what it was.) He's got the right body to display what menswear designers are doing - neat, slim, uncomplicated lines.

"Once the Hedi Slimanization got started, all anyone wanted to cast was the scrawny kid who looked like he got sand kicked in his face." (from the article)

Really, I don't know what's up with Milo's body, actually. He bulked up real fast by the start of Season 2, then by episode 11, he was back to his skinny-pale ways (just with great big arms, much like... oh. maybe. Adrian Pasdar?...) He can't seem to hang onto the muscle he builds, except for his arms. I know the type well. Whatever it is, he rocks the look, even if he's entirely too short and assymetrical to actually model. But he actually brings the clothes alive without them ever overwhelming his personality (though that Abercrombie & Fitch spread he did, with the bowler hat, pink shirt and tie clutched way up at his throat, came really close. Wack clothes, wack styling. Beautiful Milo).

If I was a good person (or at least a person with more time on her hands than I have at the moment) I'd provide more pictures to illustrate my point, but I'm sure we've all seen them. I <3 skinny boys and always have. It's funny - I never thought they'd become fashionable.

Full article here.

Tags: aside, milo ventimiglia

I finally watched Dirty Deeds and I now really want to own a copy. That movie isn't even bad enough to be worthy of mockery - it's lukewarm American Pie, if it has to be described as something - but the Milo hotness is off the scale. He doesn't pass as a teenager in the slightest, but then again, neither does anyone else in the movie. Instead he's just the coolest guy who ever lived (and yes, the loaf-of-bread scene truly is worthy of legend) and the entire world either loves him, or bows at his feet and acknowledges the fact that he pretty much owns them. (It's pretty wack, and one of the major flaws of the movie. An invincible protagonist is boring. I call it the "Manchester United" problem - I have no interest in watching Man U. football matches because they always win, and that's boring.)

I don't know if this was the beginnings of the Sexual Objectification of Milo Ventimiglia, or whether it started before that; sure he's pretty ferociously cute in The Gilmore Girls, and he's wearing tight thermals etc., but he's not really put out there as an irresistable sex monkey the way he is in Dirty Deeds. Then again, I have never seen Opposite Sex, so... I'm sure there are more faked orgasms in that, too.

But wow. What a gorgeous boy he is. Absolutely tiny (I think the only people shorter than him in this movie are supposed to be freshmen, and I think they're being shot at a downward angle to make them look shorter - and they're rarely on screen at the same time he is), bowlegged as all get-out, driving a slobber-worthy convertible (... I don't know... early 70's model Mustang? My car-fu has failed me), floppy-messy overlong hair, and a superior smirk permanently affixed to his face. The special features on the DVD provide some additional interview footage, and I would love to have Milo saying "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck" as my ring tone. Gee, I wish they could cuss on Heroes; Adrian's tasty when he cusses, too, and I would absolutely love to hear an obscene tirade coming from Randall Bentley as Lyle...

Tags: aside, milo ventimiglia, other roles, squee
Current Mood: hungry :)
Current Music: David Bowie: It Ain't Easy

Yes, this is heavily edited, because it was originally only about 10% coherent. I know what my problem is, but I won't go on about it.

For the first time, the writer's strike has begun to really genuinely worry me about the future of Heroes. I really, really don't want the WGA to cave, but it looks bad. The studios are being complete bastards and engaging in a propaganda war that is probably upsetting me way out of proportion to the facts. It's kind of like how my Mom will see on CNN some report about massive flooding out in coastal towns, and call me freaking out, and I have to tell her, "Mom, we're seventy miles away from the coast... the weather's fine here; cool it, baby."

And on that note, back to the fic writing, and the important questions, like "How well hung is Adam, anyway?"

Tags: aside
Current Mood: bummed

These are goals, not guarantees... so wish me luck.

-Find a framing device for the Kenyon Dixon Ritual story. (I have an idea now... have to write and experiment with it.)
-Write either that, or "Sunday in Vermont".
-Begin rewatch of Heroes in its entirety. (Tonight's viewing: Pushing Daisies, "Genesis", Dirty Sexy Money. It's gonna be a great night.)
-Force tech-savvy friend to rip audio of Season 2 commentaries for me.
-Watch So NoTORIous finally, since my friend acquired it; fall madly in love with Zachary Quinto again.
-Have "Shitty Milo Movies Festival" with ROCKY BALBOA and DIRTY DEEDS. If possible, add ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHANGHAI, for a Naked Adrian Pasdar semi-decent-quality palate cleanser.

The funny thing is, I have a life; I just choose to turn my back on it on a regular basis... But that's why these are goals, because there's also a company bowling/Xmas party, there's also a belated birthday celebration, there's also some shopping I need to do, oh yeah, and the job... gah... can't I just be left alone to write and watch the telly, and make a living doing that? (Short answer: no.)

Tags: adrian pasdar, aside, milo ventimiglia, zachary quinto